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Bet Aviv is an affordable, adult-oriented congregation affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism. We are an inclusive and caring community that strives to meet the diverse spiritual, religious, educational and social needs of our members through worship, study, service to our community, and social activities.
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Bet Aviv members met on a cold winter morning to craft a vision of their future in the next 3 - 5 years. Click here to read all about it.
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Mar 16, 2010 12:00 AM
by Larry KaufmanAlso posted at LarryKaufman.Wordpress.com Maybe because we've been reading on Shabbat about the brothers Moses and Aaron, I was particularly sensitized to brothers when our Torah study class...
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Mar 16, 2010 12:00 AM
by Phyllis SommerOriginally posted on Ima on (and off) the Bima The time is upon usfor freedom...for freeingourselvesfrom the bondageof slaveryof winterspring comesand we break freeNisan comes and it's like...
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Mar 16, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) One should never occupy oneself with the legends and midrashim relating to the messianic age, and should not...
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Mar 15, 2010 12:00 AM
by Naomi AbelsonSocial Action Specialist, URJ In the middle of the night, I awoke to the sound of rain on my window, which is typical this time of year in...
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Mar 15, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marge Eiseman I just read the entire "Percy Jackson & The Olympians" series - marveling at Rick Riordan's casual incorporation of ancient Greek mythology into modern life. The whole...
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Mar 15, 2010 12:00 AM
by Richard A. Siegel(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Reform Voices of Torah) Rabbi Rapport ends his d'var Torah by noting the title of the book and the...
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Mar 15, 2010 12:00 AM
by Joe Rooks Rapport(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Reform Voices of Torah) Genesis is easy to love: its soaring narratives, its rich poetics, the family dramas whose...
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Mar 11, 2010 12:00 AM
by David GoodmanLegislative Assistant, RAC(Originally published on RACblog)Believe it or not, the impetus for the creation of the National School Lunch Program in 1946 was that malnourishment was rendering large...
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Mar 11, 2010 12:00 AM
by Byron Citron The supernatural is real to a child, especially to one looking for answers to family secrets or unexplained attitudes of his parents. When my grandfather Citron was...
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Mar 10, 2010 12:00 AM
by Monica CellioTemple Sinai, Pittsburgh PAAlso posted on LiveJournal I was recently in a discussion about the choices that worship leaders make, and I realized that the Reform Movement's approach...
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Mar 9, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Bob OrkandPresident of ARZA We have learned that the Knesset may vote as soon as Tuesday on legislation that would make important changes to the Law of Return,...
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Mar 9, 2010 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary) Sound the great shofar for our freedom, raise the ensign to gather our exiles, and gather us from...
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Mar 9, 2010 12:00 AM
by Shelly LindauerExecutive Director, Women of Reform Judaism In this week's Torah portion, Ki Tisa, the Israelites begin to worry that Moses will not return from Mt. Sinai, and in...
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Mar 8, 2010 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Phyllis SommerOriginally posted on Ima on (and off) the Bima I am NOT a nervous flier. While I don't get to do it all that often, I do...
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Mar 8, 2010 12:00 AM
by Larry Kaufman(Also posted at LarryKaufman.wordpress.com) In Talmud class yesterday at Beth Emet, Rabbi Knobel was talking about a mishnah that involved the drawing of boundary lines, and I shared...
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